Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

I reveal too much of myself.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.

I don't like talking about my relationships.

There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

We're very private people and we tend to write about our relationships but keep the actual details close to our chests.

I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.

Honestly, even if I was dating someone, I will not talk about it unless I am 100 per cent sure about it, because I am a private person.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

I'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I'm at a coffee shop or my toe hurts or something, but obviously other more personal areas of life where I will just never really go there.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.